Spamming file sharers won’t work
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With HADOPI dead, Loppsi now looms on the horizon, p2pnet posted earlier.
Meanwhile, corporate culture minister Christine Albanel says even though the Three Strikes scheme is now well and truly deceased, she’s nonetheless still planning to fritter away even more taxpayer money to spam alleged file sharers with warning letters.
But across the channel, sending ISP warning missives to “persistent pirates” won’t stop them, says the BBC.
Only 33%, “would stop pirating content,” found a survey, says the story, going on:
“However, it found 80% would stop if the letter were followed by action such as cutting net connections.”
Now you know.
looms on the horizon – HADOPI is dead. Here comes Loppsi, June 11, 2009
BBC – Pirates ‘ignore’ warning letters, June 1o, 2009
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June 11th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
you mean 80% of users would switch to vpn if they received an infringement letter?
stw
June 11th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
hadopi? loppsi? What, are they in competition for the stupidest name or something?
No wonder it’s fallen flat on its face.
June 11th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
the other 20% would just use their neighbor’s wireless
June 11th, 2009 at 10:54 pm
I love their statistics! 80% of people would stop sharing files if the internet were cut off from them! Doesn’t it seem a bit low? You know, because if they’re cut off from the internet they can’t exactly use the internet? Shouldn’t that be 100% (or maybe 95% — to cover those folks who are willing to rip CDs from the library to get their fill)?
Of course, with neighborly wifi freely available in many urban areas, I’m not sure they could have enforced taking someone off the ‘net anyway. But also, I can’t imagine all the online retailers not completely related to music (eBay, Amazon, ThinkGeek.com, to name a few) would be happy with a law forcibly removing their customers. This was all doomed from the start.
Last, but not least. Spam? Of all things — how many people actually listen to spam? And fileshare? Not many, I presume. If you’re stupid enough to actually listen to a spam message and think that it’s a serious threat, you probably don’t know how to open a torrent client and keep your computer on while it finishes.
June 13th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
Davsi, hadopi, loppsi, oopsi. . . . .
These are the garbages produced by old fogies who have no clue of what is going on.
The Asteroid struck and the dinosaurs died.
History repeat itself but never exactly.
Still there is always some dinosaurs somewhere in the story who can not make it in the next curve.